Learning the opportunity cost of time in a patch-foraging task

• Published in: Cognitive, affective, & behavioral neuroscience Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 837 - 853
• Main Authors: Constantino, Sara M., Daw, Nathaniel D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.12.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Appetitive Behavior; Bayes Theorem; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Choice Behavior; Cognitive Psychology; Female; Humans; Learning; Male; Models, Psychological; Neurosciences; Psychological Tests; Psychology; Reward; Time Factors; Young Adult; Patch foraging; Dopamine; Reward; Computational model; Decision making; Reinforcement learning

Although most decision research concerns choice between simultaneously presented options, in many situations options are encountered serially, and the decision is whether to exploit an option or search for a better one. Such problems have a rich history in animal foraging, but we know little about t...